SUNCAT blog now on WordPress

The SUNCAT blog has now been transferred to WordPress. This Blogger instance is no longer being updated. To keep up-to-date with SUNCAT news go to the new SUNCAT blog. Please update your bookmarks to the new address (http://suncat.blogs.edina.ac.uk/). The feed address remains the same (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SuncatBlog).

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue this week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Birmingham University (22 May 13)
• CONSER (12 Jun 13)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (10 Jun 13)
• Exeter University (07 Jun 13)
• NERC: Natural Environment Research Council (03 Jun 13)
• Robert Gordon University (03 Jun 13)
• Royal College of Nursing (04 Jun 13)
• Royal Society of Medicine (04 Jun 13)
• Sheffield Hallam University (20 May 13)
• Strathclyde University (21 May 13)
• Sussex University (03 Jun 13)
• Swansea University (15 Jun 13)
• York University (05 Jun 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Aberystwyth University (15 May 13)
• CONSER (05 Jun 13)
• Dundee University (03 Jun 13)
• Kent University (01 Jun 13)
• London School of Economics and Political Science (07 May 13)
• National Library of Scotland (03 Jun 13)
• Nottingham University (03 Jun 13)
• Oxford University (24 May 13)
• Southampton University (02 Jun 13)
• Swansea University (15 May 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

UK Survey of Academics: implications for SUNCAT

Whilst it is the norm for services such as SUNCAT to carry out an annual survey (reports are here) of users and their use of the service, it is also most important for those running such services to be aware of how users (actual and potential) approach resource discovery generally.  The report entitled UK Survey of Academics 2012 ,funded by Jisc and RLUK and carried out by Ithaka S+R, is therefore of considerable interest.  The report details the findings from a survey of a sample of UK academic staff with just under 3,500 responses received.

One chapter, of particular significance from a SUNCAT perspective, is that entitled Providing materials to academics: formats and sources.  One most interesting finding is:

“In the case of journal collections, about half of all respondents–slightly more in the arts and humanities than in other fields–strongly agreed that they “often would like to use journal articles that are not in [their] library’s print or digital collections.”

(P.38)

Given that SUNCAT’s principal raison d’être is to provide information on the serials’ holdings (print and digital) of major research libraries (there are currently 90 Contributing Libraries) this makes welcome reading.  Of some worry, though, is the response that, when locating information at the outset of research: 

“Overall, the largest share of respondents–about 40%–indicated that they begin their research processes at a general purpose search engine on the internet or world wide web. A slightly smaller share–about one-third of respondents–indicated that they begin their research at a specific electronic research resource/computer database. A relatively smaller share–slightly less than 15% each–of respondents reported starting with an online library catalogue or a national or international catalogue or database”.  (p.21)

For a service such as SUNCAT it is vital for all potential users to know it exists and what facilities it provides.  SUNCAT is assisted in alerting users to the existence of the service by information provided on institutional websites and EDINA is very grateful to the many institutions who have promoted the service in this way.  To assist library staff, a leaflet outlining specific ways some organisations had promoted the service was distributed in 2011 and proved to be a useful source of information.  We will be looking anew at the information in the leaflet and updating it where appropriate.  We will also be looking at other ways of promoting the service and bringing it to the attention of potential users and would, of course, welcome any suggestions on ways we might consider. 

There was another response in the report of considerable interest to SUNCAT.

Roughly 3 out of 5 respondents indicated that they often or occasionally use library-provided inter-library loan or document delivery services to access journal articles and monographs. (p.39)

The importance of serving inter-library loan staff has long been recognised.  In the recent survey for the provision of feedback on the new interface  there were requests for the inclusion of British Library Codes and email addresses.  BL Codes will be made available in the initial release of the service and it is hoped to provide the email addresses in a future release of the software.

The report, therefore, is of much interest to SUNCAT.  Whilst it does reinforce some of the reasons for the establishment of the service in the first place, it also is a prompt to us to review our promotional activities to try and ensure that all who might have reason to use the service know about its existence.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last two weeks. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Aberdeen University (01 Apr 13)
• Bradford University (07 May 13)
• CONSER(29 May 13)
• Durham University (22 May 13) 
• Edinburgh University (21 May 13)
• Essex University (03 May 13)
• Hull University (24 Apr 13)
• ISSN (16 May 13)
• Leicester University (24 May 13)
• Manchester University (21 May 13)
• National Art Library (16 May 13)
• Natural History Museum (25 May 13)
• Queen Mary, University of London (15 May 13)
• School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London (15 May 13)
• Southampton University (26 May 13)
• University College London (07 May 13)
• Zoological Society of London (30 May 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Summer weird and wonderful titles

Summer is here at last, though not today in Edinburgh! Take a look at some of the weird and wonderful titles we have in SUNCAT.

• Ally Sloper’s summer number.
• Annual report of summer tent and open air campaign.
• Bus enthusiast summer special.
• The ’Pink ’un’ summer annual, 1913, ed. by W.F. De Wend Fenton. More nuts in a nutshell.
• Report of the Men of the Trees Summer School and Conference ... 1938 [etc.].
• Spring into summer.
• The summer hog outlook.
• Summer grilling.
• The summer sheep and wool outlook.
• Worzel Gummidge summer special.
• The Alps : (A magazine of light literature and useful information for the summer tourist).
• Machine knitting news. Summer tops collection.
• Summer salt :
• Hello! : this is sunny Rhyl.

For more serials with a summer theme and other weird and wonderful search SUNCAT.

SUNCAT Redevelopment Feedback Survey Report

We made a preview version of the new service available at UKSG in early April and just closed this off a few weeks ago. During this period we put up an online survey and encouraged emails to the EDINA helpdesk to ask our users for their views on the functionality and ease of use of the redeveloped service. A full report is now available on our website.

Overall, the response was very positive and any significant issues which were raised, EDINA were already aware of and are currently busy trying to resolve for the next release, due this autumn. Over 70% of the respondents reported that the preview service was better than the current service and we hope to improve this figure further as we iron out the glitches.

“Very bold design, clear and simple. A great improvement. Will encourage use of the service.”

We are happy that the vast majority of respondents found that the basic search facility was easy to use, 89%, and that the newly introduced post-search filters were found to be useful to 83% of respondents. Respondents reported that both the pre and post search filters would be good tools for reducing large result sets and filtering out holdings which might not be of interest, e.g. electronic or print holdings.

“Having the basic phrases in the first drop down box allows an easy search but also one that can still be refined without having to go to advanced search. Limiting locations and institutions is useful, especially for us as a public library as we know a number of locations will not lend so we can limit to those that do.”

Some respondents reported issues related to the display of the results list and the advanced search and work is on-going to resolve these. We were already aware that the Exact Title search was a little too exact – requiring exact matching on punctuation and letter case! Further, the relevancy ranking was not always working as expected, so these are another two areas we are currently concentrating on getting optimised.

The feedback received has been extremely useful in confirming areas we had concerns about and so helping us to prioritise immediate fixes for the next release, while also highlighting other interesting suggestions we can investigate for future releases.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Cardiff University (14 May 13)
• CONSER (22 May 13)
• Cranfield University (20 Apr 13)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (10 May 13)
• Edinburgh University (21 Apr 13)
• Glasgow University (06 May 13)
• Kingston University (11 Apr 13)
• Liverpool University (15 May 13)
• Nottingham University (01 May 13)
• Royal Institute of British Architects (22 May 13)
• Royal College of Music (17 May 13)
• Royal Society of Medicine (14 May 13)
• Scottish National Gallery Research Library (09 May 13)
• Sheffield University (14 May 13)
• Southampton University (19 May 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Glasgow School of Art joins SUNCAT

We are delighted to welcome Glasgow School of Art as a new SUNCAT contributing library.  Just under a thousand of its serial records has just been added to our service. This addition brings the total number of contributing libraries to 91, plus the CONSER database, the ISSN register and the Directory of Open Access Journals.

The Library of the Glasgow School of Art has one of the finest art, design and architecture collections in the UK, reflecting the School's long history. The School joins a growing number of art institutions in SUNCAT, including:

• British Film Institute
• Courtauld Institute of Art
• Edinburgh College of Art (as part of the University of Edinburgh)
• The National Art Library
• Royal Institute of British Architects
• Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
• Scottish National Gallery Research Library
• Tate Library (Tate Britain)
• University of the Arts London

For further information and news about SUNCAT please see our website, follow SUNCAT on Twitter (@suncatteam), or contact the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk.

Weird and wonderful gardening titles

All this week (21st-25th May) the RHS ChelseaFlower Show is taking place in London. For those of you north of the border Gardening Scotland 2013 opens on Friday 31^st May and runs until Sunday 2nd June at the Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh. Take a look at some of the weird and wonderful gardening and horticulture titles to be found in SUNCAT.

• Burpee ... commercial catalog : wholesale prices for vegetable and flower seeds, bulbs and roots, lawn grass seeds and grower supplies.
• Flower tech.
• Fred the possessed flower.
• Judith Blacklock’s seasonal flower recipes : how to make simple & stylish designs for the home.
• Your garden needs Barteldes seeds / the Barteldes Seed Company.
• The world of flower fairies.
• 2006 2011 World Outlook for Rubber Garden Hose.
• An attractive and useful School garden.
• The country gentlemen’s catalogue : of appliances for the house, field, farm, stable, garden, kennel, &c. : to which is added a trade and professional directory specially compiled for the use of country gentlemen.
• The follies journal : the international journal for follies, grottoes, and garden buildings.
• Garden gleanings.
• The Holding, Poultry Run, Garden & Allotment.
• Lawn & garden consumables.
• MY garden : an intimate magazine for garden lovers.
• The florist and pomologist and suburban gardener : a pictorial magazine of horticulture, and register of garden novelties / conducted by Thomas Moore.
• The compost pile : the newsletter for the Louisiana Society for Horticultural Research.
• Green thumb news.
• The green machine.
• List of Florida grape nurserymen.
• B.U.G.S. flyer : the voice of ecological urban horticulture : a publication from Biological Urban Gardening Services.
• Fresh air forum take a breath.
• Safe electric gardening newsletter.

You can also find out more on the Chelsea Flower Show by looking at ‘Chelsea Flower Show ... : catalogue / The Royal Horticultural Society’ and ‘Celebrating Chelsea : the best of the Chelsea Flower Show’, both titles also found in SUNCAT.

For more gardening serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last couple of weeks. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Bristol University (03 May 13)
• British Library (26 Apr 13)
• Cardiff University (23 Apr 13)
• Dundee University (06 May 13)
• Edinburgh Napier University (06 May 13)
• Exeter University (03 May 13)
• King's College London (02 May 13) 
• London School of Economics and Political Science (08 Apr 13)
• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (03 May 13)
• Loughborough University (27 Mar 13)
• National Library of Scotland (03 May 13)
• Robert Gordon University (01 May 13)
• Sheffield Hallam University (18 Apr 13)
• Southampton University (12 May 13)
• Strathclyde University (22 Apr 13)
• Sussex University (01 May 13)
• Tate Library (Tate Britain) (25 Mar 13)
• Trinity College Dublin (01 May 13)
• York University (08 May 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

SUNCAT redevelopment survey reminder

The survey on the preview of the redeveloped SUNCAT service and the preview itself is available until Monday 13th May. Please do take a few minutes to have a look at the service and let us have your feedback. All comments are very welcome and will provide us with vital information on any areas which require further development. Thank you to all who have responded so far.

SUNCAT Redevelopment: Focus on Post Search Filters

This is the second in a series of blog posts highlighting some of the new features which will be available in the redeveloped SUNCAT. In this post we are going to focus on how the post search filters will improve the new service, enabling the use of faceted browsing to lead users to the most relevant journal titles and holdings for their needs.

Post search filters will be available from the search results display, down the left hand side of the results list, and will provide similar functionality as you will be familiar with via other discovery services and many commercial shopping and travel websites.

At this point we plan to include the following facets:

• Institution (the institutions holding the journals returned in the current results list)
• Format (includes electronic and print formats)
• Subject
• Author (organisation associated with journals where relevant)
• Publisher
• Year (first published)
• Place of publication
• Language

Each filter will also display the number of records in the results set associated with it. The five most common filters from each result set will display for most of the facets, with the option to view decreasingly common filters also available. However, in the case of the institutions facet, filters will be displayed alphabetically to allow you to skim down the list for particular institutions, and in the year facet, filters will be displayed in reverse chronological order.

You will be able to combine filters to drill right down to journal titles matching quite specific criteria, but you will then also be able to simply remove filters to widen your results back up again.

An interesting side effect of displaying the filters is that it is now possible to easily see the variation present in the records supplied to SUNCAT, which goes a long way to explaining why not all the records which we would like to match together do! Part of the next step of the development work will be to try and amalgamate some of the filters so that they display in a more manageable and helpful fashion. For example combining year filters containing no numerical characters, such as “||||”, “uuuu” etc. into one “Unknown” filter. Also publication place filters such as “london”, “London.”, “London,” etc. into one filter for “London”.

You can see the faceted browsing in action on the preview service which will be available until Monday 13th May, so please take a look and let us have your comments via the online survey or by email to edina@ed.ac.uk

The following screenshot shows the filters on the preview service:

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Aberystwyth University (20 Mar 13)
• Birmingham University (22 Apr 13)
• Cambridge University (17 Apr 13)
• CONSER (24 Apr 13) 
• Durham University (22 Apr 13)
• Kent University (01 May 13)
• Leicester University (29 Apr 13)
• Newcastle University (25 Apr 13)
• Oxford University (10 Apr 13)
• Sheffield University (14 Apr 13)
• St Andrews University (02 Apr 13)
• Southampton University (28 Apr 13)
• University of the West of England (UWE) (23 Apr 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Feedback on the New Look SUNCAT

As we posted a few weeks ago a preview of the new look SUNCAT service is available at http://test.suncat.ac.uk and a huge thank you to all who have sent us comments so far.

We've now put up a short survey and would be very grateful for your input which will help to guide the ongoing development of the service. If you prefer you can also let us have your comments via the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk

We would also encourage you to circulate details of the preview service and the survey as widely as possible.

Both the survey and the preview will only be available until Monday 13th May, but development work will still be continuing and so we will have more posts to keep you up to date with progress.

Please take a few minutes to let us know what you think!

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• CONSER (20 Apr 13) 
• Cranfield University (20 Apr 13)
• Edinburgh University (21 March 13)
• Glasgow University (04 Apr 13)
• Imperial College, London (01 Mar 13)
• Manchester Metropolitan University (09 Apr 13)
• Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (16 Apr 13)
• Royal College of Music (11 Apr 13)
• Trinity College Dublin (26 Mar 13)
• University College London (09 Apr 13) 

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

SUNCAT at UKSG 2013

The SUNCAT team were very happy to attend this year's excellent UKSG Annual Conference in Bournemouth. We hope that those of you who attended were able to visit the SUNCAT stand and try out our new interface!

Team members Paula Cuccurullo and Celia Jenkins have summarised some of the plenaries and breakouts they attended for the official UKSG conference blog.

• Breakout A: ALMA@UEL and Intota@Huddersfield: implementing a next-generation library management system.
• Butterflies, Publishers and Librarians - final UKSG plenary session.
• Breakout C: PIRUS: a new COUNTER standard for article level and institutional repository usage statistics.
• "Great Expectations": how libraries are changing to meet student needs.
• Towards an 'open' approach for discovery.
• PDA checklist for academic libraries.
• Electronic resources and ILL - a self-contradiction?

You can still take a look at the new-look SUNCAT. Let us have your feedback via edina@ed.ac.uk. The new service is still in development so please continue to use the current SUNCAT as your primary service.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• British Library (22 Mar 13)
• Exeter University (05 Apr 13)
• ISSN (12 Apr 13)
• Kingston University (14 Mar 13) 
• Manchester University (21 Mar 13)
• Nottingham University (03 Apr 13)
• Society of Antiquaries of London (11 Apr 13)
• Southampton University (14 Apr 13)
• Warwick University (02 Apr 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Weird and wonderful poetry titles - second instalment

April is National Poetry Month. To mark this occasion we have searched SUNCAT for weird and wonderful poetry titles. Hope you enjoyed the first instalment. Here is this second!

• My favorite bullet.
• The paper nautilus.
• PigeonBike.
• Ploplop.
• The poetry of surrender : by SubVerse writers.       
• Poor old tired horse.
• The Records of love: or, Weekly amusements for the fair sex.
• Runnin’ on empty.
• School : from two sides of the desk.
• Slow dancer.
• Snow monkey.
• Spectacular diseases.
• Unmuzzled ox.
• Veer off.
• A wigman to wind the sun up.
• Brown sweater free poems.
• The female preceptor : containing essays, chiefly on the duties of the female sex; with a variety of useful and polite literature, poems, &c. :embellished with several beautiful engravings / conducted by a lady.
• The good child’s reward: : containing a series of poems and essays, on natural, moral, and religious subjects. To which is prefixed, An affectionate address on the duties and obligations they owe to God and their parents. / By Henry Sharpe Horsley. Illustrated by upwards of one hundred engravings.
• Kamikaze sheep : an anthology of poems and short stories.
• Litter : more poems from The Pig Press.
• Out from beneath the boot : poems.
• Brittle star.
• Crazy horse.
• Deliberately thirsty.
• Fine madness.
• Hot gun!
• A love gift for ...
• Moodswing. ("A pocket broadsheet from the ’Grim’ North delivering the goods whatever the emotional weather.”)

For more poetry titles and  other weird and wonderful serials take a look in SUNCAT.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Cardiff University (28 Mar 13)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (10 Apr 13)
• Dundee University (01 Apr 13)
• Liverpool University (04 Apr 13)
• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (05 Apr 13)
• National Library of Scotland (02 Apr 13)
• Oxford University (07 Mar 13)
• Queen Mary, University of London (15 Mar 13)
• Robert Gordon University (01 Apr 13)
• Royal College of Nursing (04 Apr 13)
• Royal Society of Medicine (08 Apr 13)
• Southampton University (07 Apr 13)
• Stirling University (28 Feb 13)
• Sussex University (03 Apr 13)
• Swansea University (15 Mar 13)
• York University (04 Apr 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Preview the New Look SUNCAT

Good morning from UKSG 2013! As promised last month the new look SUNCAT is now available for you to preview at http://test.suncat.ac.uk

The current service will continue as the primary service for the moment, but we would encourage you to take a look, experiment and let us have your feedback on the new service as soon as you get a chance.

The new service is still in development, so there are still issues to be resolved with keeping it up-to-date, searching and relevancy ranking, but to give you a flavour, the new service:

• Integrates information from the website and the actual service more closely, with the search box, a map of our Contributing Libraries and a feed of our latest news all on the homepage

• Enables searching limited to a specific library or selection of libraries: you will only see the serials’ holdings of libraries you have specified in your search

• Enables searching limited to a specific location or selection of locations, all the way from Inverness to Exeter: again you will only see the serials’ holdings in locations you have specified in your search.

• Plus you can combine library and location limits to suit your individual search requirements

• Enables searching limited to electronic or print serials only: helpful if you only want to see what might be immediately available online or conversely if want to see only material likely to be available via Inter-Library Loan.

• Enables filtering of search results by library, location, subject, organisation, publisher, date etc.

• Enables more sophisticated searching via the Advanced Search option

• Allows you to choose how many records you want to display on your search results screen

• Provides an alphabetical list of all the libraries holding a particular serial title

• Allows you to quickly see if holdings are print or electronic

• Opens up further information about each library, including directions, contact details, British Library code and when it was last updated in SUNCAT

If you are attending UKSG, please come along to the EDINA stand 26 and we will be happy to demo the service for you and answer your questions in person. However, you can also let us know what you think or if you have any questions or suggestions via the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk

We hope you like what you see!

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Birmingham University (22 Mar 13)
• CONSER (03 Apr 13)
• Durham University (22 Mar 13)
• Hull University (27 Feb 13)
• Kent University (01 Apr 13)
• Leicester University (26 Mar 13)
• Liverpool University (28 Mar 13)
• Natural History Museum (25 Mar 13)
• Newcastle University (28 Mar 13)
• Southampton University (31 Mar 13)
• Tate Library (Tate Britain) (25 Mar 13)
• University of the West of England (UWE) (23 Mar 13)
• Wellcome Library (27 Mar 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

SUNCAT at UKSG 2013

The SUNCAT team will be attending the 36th Annual UKSG Conference to be held in Bournemouth next week, from Monday 8th April until Wednesday 10th April.

UKSG “exists to connect the knowledge community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication. It is the only organisation spanning the wide range of interests and activities across the scholarly information community of librarians, publishers, intermediaries and technology vendors”.

We shall be attending a variety of sessions, including ‘Discoverability in the digital age’, ‘How libraries are changing to meet student needs’, ‘Making metrics meaningful’ and ‘Simplifying the search experience’.

Two members of the SUNCAT team, Paula Cuccurullo and Celia Jenkins, will be contributing to the UKSG blog at http://uksglive.blogspot.co.uk/. You can also follow SUNCAT at the conference on Twitter @suncatteam, as well as follow the event in general @uksg, with the conference hashtag being #uksglive.

In addition, Fred Guy, SUNCAT Service Manager, along with Adam Rusbridge of EDINA will be giving a breakout session on ‘E-journals and long term availability: an overview and panel discussion on the archiving infrastructure to meet the needs of users.’ It looks to be an exciting conference, as always!

SUNCAT will be on the EDINA stand (number 26) at the conference exhibition, covering all breaks. Please come along and see us if you're attending. We will be previewing the new-look SUNCAT, answering any questions you may have about SUNCAT, as well as telling you about other EDINA services.

Weird and wonderful poetry titles - first instalment

April is National Poetry Month. To mark this occasion we have searched SUNCAT for weird and wonderful poetry titles. There are so many that we thought that we would have two instalments!

• The Amaranth. A Semi - Monthly Publication, Devoted to Polite Literature, Science, Poetry and Amusement.
• Amethyst arsenic : poetry and art.
• Bad poetry quarterly.
• The comic almanack : an ephemeris in jest and ernest containing merry tales, humourous poetry, quips, and oddities / by Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert à Beckett, the Brothers Mayhew ... ; illustrations by George Cruikshank and other artists.
• Full of Crow poetry.
• Half drunk muse.
• The illustrated ape : fiction, pictures, poetry, pop!.
• The long grass waving : poetry and prose from members of the after school clubs at Ironville & Codnor Park Primary school.
• Meat plough : the journal of trangressive poetry and art.
• Miscellanies over claret, or, the friends to the tavern, the best friends to poetry being a collection of poems, translations, etc. to be continued monthly from the Rose-Tavern without Temple-Bar.
• A narrow fellow : journal of poetry.
• Oddrot : the journal of funny bizarre and subversive poetry.
• Parody: poetry for the world as it really is.
• Poetry of my shoulders.
• Wheels : a vehicle for modern poetry.
• xStream.
• Averse to poetry.
• Beyond bones.
• Dark lady poetry.
• Literal latté.
• Hearse : a vehicle used to convey the dead.
• Mastodon dentist : a poetry magazine.
• Message from nowhere = Message de nulle part : collection of poetry, drawings & criticism / edited by E.L.T. Mesens.
• Risk behaviour : poems from the Poetry business competition.
• Affection’s keepsake.
• The bitter oleander.
• Bo heem e um.
• Bright pink mosquito.
• Penny dreadful : tales and poems of fantastic terror.
• Random acts of writing.

Look out for our next instalment of weird and wonderful poetry titles later this month.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Glasgow University (06 Mar 13)
• Liverpool University (21 Mar 13)
• London School of Economics and Political Science (13 Mar 13)
• Nottingham University (01 Mar 13)
• St Andrews University (04 Mar 13)
• School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London (07 Mar 13)
• Southampton University (24 Mar 13)
• University College London (11 Mar 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Happy Easter from SUNCAT!

The SUNCAT team wishes you all a very happy Easter. Also, don’t forget to put your clocks forward this weekend as British Summer Time starts.  Here are some Easter and Spring weird and wonderful titles for you to enjoy. Hopefully the Spring weather will arrive sooner rather than later!

• The Cold spring journal.
• British Easter SF Convention programme book.
• Yogi Bear Easter special.
• The duty of doing good recommended and press’d In a sermon preach’d March 30th 1711. Being Good-Friday, in the parish-church of St. Michael lè Belfreys, in the city of York; upon occasion of the charity-schools. By William Stainforth, ...
• The ’Pink ’un’ Spring annual, 1914, ed. by W.F. De Wend Fenton. Real jam; or, The Pink ’un pill for pale people.
• Spring fling.
• The Spring-Garden journal. By Miss Priscilla Termagant, (a near relation of the late Mrs. Roxana.)
• Spring into summer.
• The Spring warbler : a choice collection of favourite songs.
• Walt Disney’s spring fever.

For more weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT.

Preview the New Look SUNCAT in Early April

We’ve been blogging about the new look SUNCAT for a few months now, giving you a look at the new homepage, some background on the technical architecture and also some idea of the new features which will be available. However, we now hope to let you have a preview of the new service itself!

The current service will continue as the primary service until further notice, but you can check out the redeveloped service from 8th April when we preview it at the UKSG Conference (Bournemouth 8-10 April). We will let you know the url on the day and from then on we would encourage you to take a look, experiment and let us have your feedback, good and bad! The service is still in development so the more feedback we can gather at this point the better.

If you are attending UKSG, please come along to the EDINA stand 26 and we will be happy to demo the service for you and answer your questions in person. However, we would also encourage you to let us know what you think or if you have any questions or suggestions via the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk.

SUNCAT Redevelopment: Focus on Limiting your Search by Institution or Location

This is the first in a series of blog posts which will highlight some of the new or improved features which will be available in the redeveloped SUNCAT. In this post we are going to focus on how the institutional and geographic limits will improve with the new service in comparison to the current service.

Old SUNCAT: You can only select one institution and/or one location per search.

New SUNCAT: Select as many institutions/locations as you like per search. Also, in the future, we hope to allow you to select and save your preferred group of institutions as your default search preference. We would also hope to set up some pre-selected groupings based on institutional consortia or geographic area. For example these might include UK Research Reserve (UKRR), Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL) or Wales, North West England etc.

Old SUNCAT: Only one location (normally the main library) is recorded for each institution on the service, so the geographical location limit is, therefore, not always exact.

New SUNCAT: The new service records all of our contributing institutions’ physical libraries so limiting by location is now much more granular and precise.

Old SUNCAT: You can’t select an institution if it’s outside a location limit you have also selected. For example if you choose to limit your search to the location of “Edinburgh” you cannot then, in addition, select and search on an institution outside Edinburgh, e.g. the University of Glasgow

New SUNCAT: You can combine your limits to create very specific searches tailored for your individual requirements. For example, you can create a search limited to the location of “London” but then also include individual institutions outside London, e.g. University of Oxford.

Old SUNCAT: Although a search with limits applied does only return titles held by that institution or within that location, holdings from other institutions/locations outside of the selected limits will also be displayed.

New SUNCAT: Only holdings within the institutions or locations selected will be returned and displayed, creating a clearer more focussed result and record display.

Naturally, the improved recording of institutions’ individual library locations and the improved functionality of the limits are both vital for the new SUNCAT mobile app which will also be released later this year.

If you have any questions or suggestions about how the limits will work on the new SUNCAT or on the development in general, please contact us at edina@ed.ac.uk.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Bradford University (07 Feb 13)
• CONSER (27 Feb 13)
• Durham University (25 Feb 13)
• Edinburgh University (21 Feb 13)
• King's College London (01 Mar 13)
• Liverpool University (28 Feb 13)
• Natural History Museum (25 Feb 13)
• Open University (01 Feb 13)
• Strathclyde University (21 Jan 13)
• York University (08 Feb 13)
• Zoological Society of London (28 Feb 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Happy International Women's Day!

Today (8th March) is International Women's Day. To celebrate we have selected some weird and wonderful titles with the theme of women. Many of these titles can be found at the Women's Library, which is now part of the London School of Economics and Political Science. The Women's Library "is Europe's largest collection of material relating to the lives of women, as well as being a key part of British heritage."

• Ain’t I a woman? : a Midwest newspaper of women’s liberation
• Battleaxe : the new labour movement paper for women
• Double shift: working women’s newsletter
• Girl frenzy : by women for people
• Listen real loud : news of women’s liberation worldwide
• Myra’s journal of dress and fashion.
• Msprint : a Scottish feminist publication
• New mango season : Caribbean women’s writing
• Power of women : magazine of the International Wages for Housework Campaign
• Red letter : for women who love good stories
• Scope : magazine of the Women’s Gas Federation and Young Homemakers
• The scarlet women : or, revolt : newletter of the socialist current in the women’s liberation movement
• Skirting through history : the her-story newsletter for all women
• WHAM! : women, heritage and museums           
• Wilpower : Women in Libraries newsletter.
• Women : listen to your mothers, don’t succumb to the wishes of your brothers, take a step back.
• Among women : the awesome power of woman.
• Driven to Madness, or the Vengeance of a Jealous Woman, etc. [A tale.]
• I.M. cowgirl : the life of the western woman.
• Sloane ideas for the urbane woman .
• Whomanwarp.
• You go girl an e-zine for the mid-life woman.
• The Woman’s Dreadnought : Published by the East London Federation of the Suffragettes .(by the Workers’ Suffrage Federation) - Edited by Sylvia Pankhurst.
• Aunt Edna's reading list.

For more titles related to women and other weird and wonderful serials take at look in SUNCAT.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Aberystwyth University (21 Feb 13)
• Birmingham University (22 Feb 13)
• Cambridge University (05 Feb 13)
• CONSER (20 Feb 13)
• Cranfield University (20 Feb 13)
• Essex University (29 Jan 13)
• ISSN (13 Feb 13)
• Liverpool University (22 Feb 13)
• Southampton University (24 Feb 13)
• Warwick University (07 Feb 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

SUNCAT welcomes newest Contributing Library - City University London

We are pleased to announce that serial records from City University London have now been loaded into SUNCAT. It has contributed just over 60,500 records, with titles including: 'International journal of vehicle design: the journal of the International Association of Vehicle Design'; 'Medical decision making: an international journal'; and 'Journal of cybernetics'.

City University London is an institution which strives for excellence in education, research and enterprise and is focused on business and the professions.  Its library service reflects this, with library sites serving all five campuses located in central London.

There are now 90 libraries, plus CONSER, the ISSN Register and the Directory of Open Access Journals in SUNCAT. There is a full list of libraries contributing to SUNCAT available. To keep up-to-date with SUNCAT developments or for more information on the service take a look at the SUNCAT blog and SUNCAT's Facebook page; follow SUNCAT on Twitter (@suncatteam) or contact the EDINA helpdesk at edina@ed.ac.uk.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Cardiff University (29 Jan 13)
• Dundee University (04 Feb 13)
• Glasgow University (07 Feb 13)
• Institution of Civil Engineers (06 Feb 13)
• Leicester University (12 Feb 13)
• Liverpool University (15 Feb 13)
• London Business School (14 Feb 13)
• London School of Economics and Political Science (10 Jan 13)
• Nottingham University (05 Feb 13)
• Oxford University (04 Feb 13)
• Robert Gordon University (01 Feb 13)
• Royal College of Music (18 Feb 13)
• Southampton University (17 Feb 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Bristol University (08 Feb 13)
• British Library (01 Feb 13)
• CONSER (06 Feb 13)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (11 Feb 13)
• Exeter University (01 Feb 13)
• National Art Library (05 Feb 13)
• National Library of Scotland (01 Feb 13)
• Royal Society of Medicine (08 Feb 13)
• St Andrews University (04 Feb 13)
• Senate House Libraries, University of London (01 Feb 13)
• University College London (11 Feb 13)
• Wellcome Library (29 Jan 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

SUNCAT Survey Report 2013

We’ve just published the report from our Benefits and Impact Survey for 2013. The survey was launched back in November and closed at the end of last month.

The report confirms SUNCAT’s primary role as a centralised source of serials information and UK holdings, with 75% of responses stating, either locating serials and articles, or checking bibliographic information, as the primary purposes for using the service.

The key features of the service which are most valued by the respondents include:

• SUNCAT’s comprehensive coverage
• Its aggregation and display of serials information and UK holdings
• The accuracy and currency of the data provided
• The speed and ease of use of the service  

We are very happy to see that the vast majority of respondents find SUNCAT not only easy or very easy to use (86%) but that it also saves them time (89%). Further, 97% indicated they would recommend the service to others.

“It is such a comprehensive reference source it would take me much longer to check information elsewhere.”

“SUNCAT is easy to use and its coverage of UK serial holdings is great.”

“Very trustworthy, fast and comprehensive. Records are to a very high standard.”

“Find Suncat invaluable. If it wasn't available I would try to source an alternative. Don't know what though!”

We also used the survey to find out what improvements our users would like to see in SUNCAT so that we can use this information to plan and prioritise our future developments. A number of the suggestions related to the data provided by the SUNCAT Contributing Libraries (CLs), both requesting more detailed holdings information and also providing additional information such as licensing restrictions for electronic serials. While this area is not one EDINA has immediate control over we do take note of these ideas, in the hope that if our CLs start recording and linking such information to their serials records, we would be able to start incorporating this into SUNCAT.

However, with regard to suggested improvements related to the SUNCAT interface we are happy to report that a number of these will be addressed as part of the redevelopment of SUNCAT, announced in November and mentioned in the previous posting. These include:

• Moving the search functionality to the homepage of the service to integrate the service and website more closely
• Providing a print/electronic serials limit to the search functionality to enable users to pre-filter their search by format
• Adding print/electronic icons to the holdings display to enable users to more quickly and easily distinguish between print and electronic holdings  

It is also good to know that our users are keen to see the service continue to expand and we will indeed be continuing to add new libraries throughout 2013.

Additional suggestions, described in the report, were also received and we will be investigating the feasibility of these and where possible adding them to a list of requirements for future development work.

SUNCAT Redevelopment: Technical architecture overview

Back in a post in November 2012 we announced that EDINA is redeveloping the existing SUNCAT search platform. We also gave you a preview of the new design and now we want to follow these posts up with more technical information about the new architecture.

New Search Platform

The cornerstone to the SUNCAT service is the ability to search for libraries’ MARC records and we wanted this to be as efficient as possible within the new architecture. We have therefore decided to use the open source enterprise search platform ‘Solr’ from the Apache Software foundation given its popularity and feature set.

We have established a workflow, which exports records from Aleph (currently used for loading and de-duplication of libraries’ serial records) and indexes these records within Solr.

The diagram below illustrates the process:

Individual MARC records are exported from Aleph and these are then grouped into MARC collections. A MARC collection consists of records from the libraries holding a particular serial.

These MARC collections are then indexed in Solr using a modified version of the open source solrmarc code.

Currently the Solr index consists of over 5 million individual library MARC records and in terms of storage sizes, this equates to over 30GB on disk.

New Interface

Storing all of the records in Solr however is only part of the new architecture. We are developing a new user interface for the SUNCAT service, taking the opportunity to also incorporate some new features that exploit the power of Solr.

A combination of the Java programming language, Groovy programming language and the Grails framework has been chosen as the software stack as it enables a rapid development process and also leverages the experience of developers within EDINA.

Grails follows the highly popular software design pattern of Model View Controller, which allows separation of concerns and a clean software design.

The following diagram illustrates at a very high level the architecture we are using and how Solr is involved:

We are developing a number of ‘controllers’, which are used to process user requests and issue queries to Solr as and when required. These controllers are designed for specific tasks e.g.

• Handling search requests

• Handling API requests

• Handling requests to view details of a specific MARC record etc.

We also have a number of templates that comprise the ‘views’ of the new system. When a controller has completed the processing of the user request and it is ready to return something to the user (e.g. a web page), it uses the relevant template and injects the correct data e.g. the search results. Using a template approach for all of the views of the system provides a huge amount of flexibility as we have full control of all visual aspects of the service and we can even support different output formats based on the user request e.g. supporting HTML, XML, JSON etc.

Enabling Searching at Library Level

We are also spending time in constructing a database to store institution, library and location data and integrating this within the new user interface in-order to allow users to perform more detailed searches within SUNCAT. For example searches can be performed at the library level whereas previously users could only search at the institutional level. We have also tagged every library with its GPS coordinates, which allows us to show all SUNCAT contributing libraries in a map interface and will allow proximity based searching in the forthcoming SUNCAT mobile application for iOS.

We will be keeping you up to date with more posts, about the redevelopment and the mobile app, to follow over the next few months.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• CONSER (30 Jan 13)
• Durham University (30 Jan 13)
• Glasgow University (16 Jan 13)
• ISSN (31 Jan 13)
• Liverpool University (01 Feb 13)
• Manchester University (21 Jan 13)
• Natural History Museum (25 Jan 13)
• Newcastle University (24 Jan 13)
• Reading University (29 Jan 13)
• Royal Asiatic Society (24 Jan 13)
• Sheffield Hallam University (16 Jan 13)
• Southampton University (03 Feb 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Celebrate National Libraries Day!

Tomorrow (Saturday 9th February) is National Libraries Day. To celebrate libraries and all the fantastic material they hold here are some weird and wonderful serials found in SUNCAT with a library and librarian theme.

• The Nugget weekly ... : combining The Prairie, Detective, and Robin Hood libraries.
• Polar libraries bulletin
• Reading light : Oxford University libraries readers’ newsletter.
• Scalable Parallel Libraries Conference
• Taking stock : libraries and the book trade : journal of the National Acquisitions Group.
• What Croydon reads.
• Wilpower : Women in Libraries newsletter.
• Books, bytes and buildings : strategic plan for the library service.
• Cowboy adventure library.
• At your service : for deans and directors of research libraries.
• Australian play matters : journal of the Australian Toy Libraries Association.
• Behind the shelves : Hereford and Worcester County Libraries staff magazine.
• High roller. (Nevada Library Association.)
• The Librarian : being an account of scarce valuable, and useful English books, manuscript libraries, public records, &c. &c / By James Savage.
• Show-me libraries.
• Stress : an information bulletin on libraries and local government reorganisation in Yorkshire / produced by the Yorkshire Branch of the Library Association.
• WULOP : Westminster union list of periodicals.
• Between librarians : journal of the Maryland Library Association.
• Cassette scrutiny : a journal for librarians & library users.
• From the State librarian’s desk.
• Fundraising for the small public library : a how-to-do-it manual for librarians / James Swan.
• Game for a LAFF : the fanzine for Librarians As Football Fans.
• Harrod’s librarians’ glossary of terms used in librarianship, documentation and the book crafts, and reference book.
• How to do it manual for librarians.
• Librarians at liberty
• Librarians for the Alliance : for librarians interested in Liberal and SDP policies.
• Matter of fax : a directory of fax numbers and email addresses for librarians, archivists and information scientists.
• Ogle : Newsletter Committee of the Ontario Government Librarians Council.
• Grassroots for high risque librarians.

SUNCAT now contains the serials records of 89 libraries, from academic and research libraries through to special libraries and National Libraries, and the number is growing.Take a look at our Contributing Libraries map to see where they are located and what their contact details are. 

Follow what libraries are doing for National Libraries Day on Twitter by following @NatLibrariesDay and checking out the hashtags #LoveLibraries and #NLD13.

SUNCAT Redevelopment

We reported in a blog post in November that a new interface for SUNCAT is being developed and since good progress has been made we are keen to share with you more details on what we are doing and perhaps more importantly when we plan to show what has been done. We are working towards having a public preview of the new interface early in April.

Building up to this we will have a blog post next week on the technical architecture which has been adopted. This will be followed by blog posts on the functionality, which will be available initially, and outlining the details for the public preview. We are very keen to find out from our users what they think of the development and accordingly will be asking for feedback after users have had a chance to view the interface.

Future blog posts will include sharing the roadmap of our planned developments until the end of the year and providing information on specific aspects of the technical developments.

It’s clearly a busy time for us but we feel that it is time and effort well spent as we will be in a position to develop and implement requested functionality much more quickly than we have been able to in the past.

SUNCAT and Voices for the Library Twitter Takeover

On Monday, 4th February, one of the SUNCAT Project Officers kicked off the Twitter Takeover of the Voices for the Library (@VoicesLibrary) in the run-up to National Libraries Day on Saturday, 9th February. Check out Twitter for #nld13 to see what libraries across the UK are doing.

To give a bit of background:
Voices for the Library (@ukpling) describes itself as “Publicising the Public Library Services in the UK and the work librarians do.” Their sister Twitter account is @VoicesLibrary, which has a “new librarian every day”. As described in an earlier blog post, a call was put out on the LIS-PROFESSION mailing list, asking for librarians from all walks of life who would be willing to talk about where they work, and what makes it so special. Natasha Aburrow-Jones (@TashaAJ), the SUNCAT bibliographic Project Officer, was selected to kick off a week of diverse librarians talking about their roles (others include a museum librarian, a public librarian, an art librarian, an NHS librarian and a University librarian).

Natasha says:
“I applied to be one of the Voices for the Library in the run-up to National Libraries Day as I wanted to tell everyone what a fantastic service SUNCAT is, and how the team behind it are so dedicated to their work. I also wanted to point out that SUNCAT is not merely a librarian’s tool – it’s available for anyone (everyone!) to use.
I was somewhat surprised / most honoured to be selected to be the first Voice; I presumed that my role was so specialised, that it wouldn’t have great appeal to everyone. However, that presumption seems to have been blown out of the water with the comments I’ve received since undertaking the #TwitterTakeover!”

Over the course of the working day, Natasha issued 42 tweets, mainly covering the work that lies behind SUNCAT, to show what happens during the average SUNCAT day. This included talking about the range of libraries that contribute data to SUNCAT, the continual updating of the database, the “Weird and Wonderful” titles found in SUNCAT (and are blogged about thematically), data munging, ease of searching SUNCAT and what a timesaver it is, etc. She also mentioned the new interface that SUNCAT will be having in the near future.

A Storify made up of the tweets has been put together, and can be found here:
http://storify.com/edinadatacentre/suncat-serials-union-catalogue-for-the-uk
You can look at the tweets as they happened, and the responses.

There was much re-tweeting, spreading as far as Sweden, the United States and Australia. It also meant new followers for both @TashaAJ and @suncatteam. Comments included:
(On the new SUNCAT interface) “Wow, that looks very different. I rely on SUNCAT to identify libraries to source articles for ILL requests.”
“Are you doing a "Weird & wonderful" libraries SUNCAT post for National Libraries Day?” – we are now! The post will be put up on Friday, in time for National Libraries Day on the 9th February.
“I’ve never used SUNCAT so I learnt a lot!”

Voices for the Library Twitter takeover

You may have seen a recent call on LIS-PROFESSION for a call for a Twitter takeover of the Voices for the Library account to celebrate National Libraries Day on the 9^th February. The call said:
What do Librarians actually do? As part of National Libraries Day, we want to celebrate librarians of all shapes and sizes. A librarian a day will take over our sister account @ukpling and share their experiences of working in the library and information profession.

Well, you might be interested to know that the first Twitter takeover on Monday 4th February will be none other than @TashaAJ - normally known as Natasha Aburrow-Jones, the SUNCAT Bibliographic Project Officer.

@VoicesLibrary said it best:
Interested in finding out more about what goes on at SUNCAT Union Serial Catalogue? Our first tweeter for #nld13 is @TashaAJ. Starts 4/2/13

Feel free to follow either @VoicesLibrary and/or @TashaAJ and see what goes on in the SUNCAT team!

RDA survey

SUNCAT is sending out a survey to Contributing Libraries on Monday, 4^th February, to discuss what the libraries are doing with regards to the adoption of RDA (Resource Description Access), the new cataloguing rules that are due to replace AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2^nd edition).  The results will help with integrating RDA into SUNCAT, for example, in adding new MARC21 codes for display, new indexing routines, etc. The analysis of the answers will also form the basis of a paper that has been accepted for publication in Alexandria: the journal of national & international library and information issues (0955-7490), in a special RDA-themed issue.

We would be very grateful if our Contributing Libraries completed this survey. We are happy to receive more than one questionnaire from any given Contributing Library, as there may be different answers from different departments, etc. The survey will be open for 3 weeks.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Aberystwyth University (15 Jan 13)
• Cambridge University (08 Jan 13)
• CONSER (23 Jan 13) 
• Liverpool University (25 Jan 13)
• St Andrews University (08 Jan 13)
• Southampton University (27 Jan 13)
• Trinity College Dublin (16 Jan 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Birmingham University (22 Jan 13)
• Cranfield University (20 Jan 13)
• Edinburgh University (21 Jan 13)
• Hull University (10 Dec 12)
• Liverpool University (18 Jan 13)
• Queen Mary, University of London (15 Jan 13)
• Royal College of Music (17 Jan 13)
• Sheffield University (14 Jan 13)
• Southampton University (20 Jan 13)
• Strathclyde University (21 Dec 12)
• Women's Library, London Metropolitan University (19 Dec 12)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Happy Australia Day!

Tomorrow (26th January) is Australia Day. Australia has been in the news recently due to the extremely hot weather there and, of course, the Australian Open tennis tournament. Congratulations Andy Murray for getting through to the final. Here's hoping he'll win another Grand Slam title! Here are some weird and wonderful serial titles with an Australian theme.

• The Australian bird bander : journal of the Bird Banders’ Association of Australia.
• Mapping Pro Bono in Australia 
• Maverick guide to Australia 
• Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue. Australia.  
• Kylie Minogue : the official ... annual 
• Wanneroo Times (Perth, Australia) 
• Worrall’s textile directory of the manufacturing districts of Ireland, Scotland, & Wales, with the dominions of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and the counties of Chester, Derby, Gloucester, Leicester, Nottingham, Worcester, and other manufacturing districts not included in Worrall’s textile directory of Lancashire and Yorkshire 
• Bush telegraph (Warwick, Australia) 
• The kosher koala : newsletter of the Australian Jewish Genealogical Society. 
• E-VarietyProfiler for Western Australia profiles the status of a variety in terms of physical characteristics, disease risks, abiotic stresses, herbicide tolerance, yield and potential net return / Government of Western Australia, Department of Agriculture, Grains Research & Development Corporation. 
• Joondalup Times (Wanneroo/Perth, Australia) 
• Australian beer label annual. 
• ’Look-in’ Rod Hull & Emu annual 
• Bath & shower products in Australia 
• Chewings : Glossy Black-Cockatoo newsletter. 
• The Welsh Australian = Yr Awstralwr Cymreig. 
• Triple bottom line summary report / Department of the Environment and Heritage.

For more Australian serials and weird and wonderful titles in general take a look in a SUNCAT.